McLaren’s upcoming Ferrari fighter (something they will be doing a lot of this year) has been given a good wringing out by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button at Goodwood, and surprisingly they like it. But then why would would they bite the hand that feeds them (lots of cash)? McLaren just announced the MP4-12C’s full [...]

Many moons ago I lived about 5 miles away from the section of Mulholland Highway known as “The Snake” that Tanner Foust picked to debut his new Street Drift video series. I spent many a weekday afternoon banging up and down the two mile stretch between the Rockstore Cafe at the bottom and “The Gallery” [...]

It seems like a lifetime since the end of last year’s F1 season but here we are finally with the season opener from Bahrain. There’s been a major shuffling of seats–notably 2009 Champ, Jensen Button going to Maclaren and multi-champion, Michael Schumacher coming out of retirement to fill his place at the now named Mercedes [...]

Chuck Norris turns 70 today. Rumor has it he bought himself a Nissan GT-R for his birthday.
This is why:

Newton’s Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal to a GT-R.
Chuck Norris and Mr T. got into a GT-R and drove [...]

Looks like our good friend Tanner Foust has something crazy up his sleave judging by this teaser that just showed up on his YouTube channel. Its a quick 15 second clip of him hooning his awesome 600 horsepower Nascar V8 propelled Rockstar Energy Drink Scion tC on what looks like our favorite stretch of Mulholland [...]

In case you haven’t heard already, super-hoon, Travis Pastrana is planning an attempt at doubling the world record for jumping a car. And he’s doing it with a twist–out into the Long Beach Harbor across water onto a pontoon on New Years Eve. In front of a huge crowd of partiers and live on ESPN. [...]

Autocar UK pitched the contents of Autofiends (modern) daily driver dream garage against each other at Castle Combe. In the wet! Check it out to see who wins.
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If you are of a certain age, as I am, then the Group B rally cars of the early 80s are the n’est plus ultra of anything driven by an internal combustion engine on four wheels. Packing unlimited horsepower into econobox based hot hatches with all wheel drive and minimum weight these cars were then [...]

Biggest automotive YouTube sensation, Ken Block teamed up with biggest grammatical YouTube sensation, Marina from Hot For Words to explain the word Gymkhana. Worth a watch, even if its just to see Marian overflowing from the DC wifebeater, but we’re not sure she really explained the root of the word Gymkhana properly. Dictionary.com defines Gymkhana [...]

Birds Nest Olympic Stadium, Beijing, China–Seven time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher, and his Team Germany team-mate, Sebastian Vettel, claimed their third consecutive ROC Nations Cup title today. The pair beat the Autosport Team GB pairing of new F1 World Champion, Jenson Button, and three time World Touring Car Champion, Andy Priaulx, in a tie [...]